April 3, 200817 yr As for the song, I really adore it. Granted, it's no 'A&E', I think that will always remain my favourite song they ever do and I'm sure in a couple of years time I'll be saying it's one of my favourite songs ever by anyone, but I still think it's fabby! It manages to have a kind of 'Supernature' flavour to it yet still manages to sound nothing like anything on it. Of their four albums, this is possibly the one I like least, I've not really been able to get into it properly yet, I find it lacks something... But whilst I don't rate it as highly as their first three albums it's still good and a fourth good (7/10+) album pretty much cements their place in my top 5 acts of all time. :wub:
April 3, 200817 yr YouTube have removed the video - is it anywhere else online? There are several avaliable russ - just search on youtube :D
April 3, 200817 yr Thanks mate, a bit of searching and I've just watched it. OK, there's not enough Alison in the clip, but it's a happy, funny, quirky video - a bit like a cross between Blur's 'Parklife' and Bjork's 'It's Oh So Quiet'. The single mix is slightly different to the album version, too, it sounds a little more clipped and punchy. I think all the nay-sayers should play this a few times and then say it's not catchy.... I think it's the most memorable single the band have released in ages....
April 3, 200817 yr Thanks mate, a bit of searching and I've just watched it. OK, there's not enough Alison in the clip, but it's a happy, funny, quirky video - a bit like a cross between Blur's 'Parklife' and Bjork's 'It's Oh So Quiet'. The single mix is slightly different to the album version, too, it sounds a little more clipped and punchy. I think all the nay-sayers should play this a few times and then say it's not catchy.... I think it's the most memorable single the band have released in ages.... Yeah, it is a bit like Parklife and Its Oh So Quiet. Different from what I was thinking it would be though - I was expecting something pastoral like the music, maybe in the vein of I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing - where a group of people come together on a hilltop at sunrise or something.... Amazing song still though - even if the single mix mutes the recorders (or flutes) a tad at the end.
April 10, 200817 yr Big jump for Happiness on Itunes, still not doing great tough :(. [99] 74| Goldfrapp - Happiness.
April 11, 200817 yr Amazing song still though - even if the single mix mutes the recorders (or flutes) a tad at the end. this was on the radio when i was in the car with a brother on the way to see a film - he thought it was $h!te and as it was on radcliffe & macconie told me off as i shouldnt be listening to old folks radio* - so he turned it off and found something that he liked on another radio station - the blow monkeys - which he "hadnt heard in years" - i think there is some irony there that alanis morrisette might like *tho my mum and dad listen to smooth
April 11, 200817 yr this was on the radio when i was in the car with a brother on the way to see a film - he thought it was $h!te and as it was on radcliffe & macconie told me off as i shouldnt be listening to old folks radio* - so he turned it off and found something that he liked on another radio station - the blow monkeys - which he "hadnt heard in years" - i think there is some irony there that alanis morrisette might like *tho my mum and dad listen to smooth maybe try an ejector seat in the car? As they say... you can choose your friends.... :rolleyes: :P
April 12, 200817 yr They sang Caravan Girl and A&E but not Happiness? Perhaps they realised what the releases from the album should've been. :P A&E was fabulous, I thought Alison struggled a tad during Caravan Girl.
April 12, 200817 yr yea, they done Happiness as well - although, she was off-key - first time in Goldfrapp's career I've ever heard her sing badly live.
April 12, 200817 yr Ah, I must have missed the start of the show then. She did look rather stunning though! :heart: My dad said 'wtf is she wearing?!' :heehee:
April 12, 200817 yr They did Happiness and A&E on Tuesday, I thought they were good, by far the best guests!
April 12, 200817 yr They did Happiness and A&E on Tuesday, I thought they were good, by far the best guests! Well when the next biggest act on Later this week was the awful Kooks (they give the Indie genre a bad name ffs), then that was not difficult. However I agree with Russ, that was the poorest Alison Goldfrapp vocal performance that I have seen, when they opened with Happiness. Still she was better on Caravan Girl & sublime on A&E. Plus am I the only one alarmed that she looked like Geri Halliwell's older more attractive sister on the show? :lol:
April 12, 200817 yr Here are the Live performances now up on Youtube.................. _Oa2eXco-RI Happiness (Live on Later Apr 08) hlJOo0XOtsg Caravan Girl (Live on Later Apr 08) x2s43OaNClA A&E (Live on Later Apr 08)
April 14, 200817 yr Alison's looking fine for her age, I think.... what is she now? Early 40s? Stunning...
April 15, 200817 yr Somehow after not charting in the top 75 on downloads Happiness is apparently in top 20 in the midweeks!
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